by Loquacious Linda
Member since:
May 6, 2008

Will Obama RETURN $994,795 in Goldman Sachs Campaing Contributions? *** Got What they paid for?

April 19, 2010 07:04 PM UTC (Updated: April 19, 2010 08:56 PM UTC)
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Would this be a rhetorical question?

 

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WILL OBAMA RETURN

 

$994,795 IN GOLDMAN

 

SACHS CAMPAIGN

 

CONTRIBUTIONS?

 


 

Comments: 29

David Hutchinson Apr 19, 2010, 7:17pm UTC
Why should he? Did you ever get a return from an investment that didn't pan out? Goldman Sachs just lost the bet. They were betting they'd get favors and they lost. The stock maret is nothing but legalised gambling anyway. Doesn't the Bible have something to say about gambling?
Loquacious Linda Apr 19, 2010, 7:20pm UTC
Doesn't it say "if you don't work you don't eat"?
David Hutchinson Apr 19, 2010, 7:47pm UTC
linda, everything we do is work. Including looking for a way to get out of work.
Loquacious Linda Apr 19, 2010, 7:54pm UTC
Not me, I look for efficiency to get it done quicker so can get more work done.
David Hutchinson Apr 20, 2010, 7:24am UTC
Robbing, cheating and conighving takes time, thought and effort. That's work!!!
David Hutchinson Apr 20, 2010, 7:30am UTC
Buying stock is a rich persons lazy way of earning money without actually working. I wish I had bought Intel, Microsoft, IBM when they were cheap! That's like getting millions without working!!!
Loquacious Linda Apr 20, 2010, 10:27am UTC
Wishing your life away? How many billions, even trillions, has the market taken from the average guy? 401k's etc. And inflation makes it worse because a guy can "think" his portfolio is "recovering" but the money is worth less and it's just a "number" on a piece of paper to make people feel good.
Inflations steals from everyone every day!
Tea Tree Jan 19, 2012, 12:29pm UTC
Agree - just because you make a donation you can't expect to get your agenda given priority. If you could it would be straight forward bribery
Truth Always Apr 19, 2010, 7:22pm UTC
I betcha he wont....
Loquacious Linda Apr 19, 2010, 7:39pm UTC
Didn't he already spend it all on attorneys telling everyone to look at the Hawaiian birth certificate?
David Hutchinson Apr 19, 2010, 7:49pm UTC
He's been vetted. Fully vetted. He's an American citizen and that's that. Hawawi been a state since 1959.
Loquacious Linda Apr 19, 2010, 7:55pm UTC
SCOTUS won't even take THAT stand!
Richard B. Apr 19, 2010, 8:08pm UTC

Thanks for posting this to 4 US, World News & Opinions.

are you kidding? of course he won't
Col. George W. Apr 19, 2010, 8:20pm UTC
11 million in bail out money + 100 cents on the dollar from a bankruptcy deal. You think Obama didn't keep his end of the bargan. Fortunately he does not have as much control over Justice as he would like.
Cena W. Apr 19, 2010, 8:49pm UTC
Say Eric Holder Col George, isn't he one you have ranted against?
Col. George W. Apr 19, 2010, 9:56pm UTC
He's Attorney General, not Dept of Justice.
Cena W. Apr 19, 2010, 8:49pm UTC
So are you against Wall Street / Banking REform?
Are you going to ask Mitch McConnell to return his pay-offs? Mitch was up there begging last week and the week before that it was Boehner.

Why don't you tell us where you stand on regulation of the Banks and Wall Street?
Loquacious Linda Apr 19, 2010, 9:25pm UTC
I am against the continued MANIPULATION that people like you BELIEVE is reform/regulation. It is ALL orchestrated against those with any money left.

The banks should be left alone to rise and fall on their own. It was regulation which got them in trouble in the first place.
Just read the next post for details and HOW IT WORKED!

There's not fools like the Lip/Prog fools.
David Hutchinson Apr 20, 2010, 7:18am UTC
Linda, it was deregulation, grreed and a sprinkling of whats best for the stockholder that caused the whole situation. the stockholders were the enablers of the financial institutions.
David Hutchinson Apr 20, 2010, 7:21am UTC
Most stockholders don't care how the banks and financial institutions get their dividends, just get my dividends damn it!!!
Col. George W. Apr 19, 2010, 10:05pm UTC
Cena, Linda, On the subject of Regulation. There are good and bad ones.
There used to be a Regulation preventing bank from operating Interstate. That was a good regulation. There used to be a regulation (maybe still is) that prevented banks from loaning money without colateral. That was a good one.

Not operating outside their state held them down so they could not become too big to fall and forced them to do busines with people not conglomerates. Not loaning money without colateral prevented runaway Credit Card debt.

If those two regulations had not been discarded fewer people would be so deep in CC debt, There would have been no bail out, no housing bubble, no sub prime loans or credit swaps, None of those things. The country would be better off.

Who is responsable for discarding those regulation and laws? Goes right to the FED.
Jean R B. Apr 19, 2010, 10:58pm UTC
He will never pay back the money. It was a donation and he has spent most of it.
Baby J. Apr 20, 2010, 12:33am UTC
I love it. Goldman Sachs defrauds investors and you blame Obama for accepting campaign contributions made in 2008. Will Goldman return investor money on the risky subprime mortgages they bundled and sold to unknowing investors? I'd say that Goldman fared well in the financial meltdown. They got a good return on investment for their contribution.
Marilyn M. Apr 20, 2010, 12:50am UTC
No, but he should.
Larry M. Apr 20, 2010, 6:44am UTC
Those contributions don't seem to have done much for Goldman Sachs. Perhaps Obama can't be bought off so easily. Perhaps Obama does not have the power imputed to him.
Ed Da Head Toker Apr 22, 2010, 2:43am UTC
just like he won't return the contributions from citibank, countrywide, etc.
Ed Da Head Toker Apr 22, 2010, 2:48am UTC
Thank you for posting to our group; http://civilrights4all.gather.com/
Please keep posting to our group and ask others to join.
Matthew M. Apr 23, 2010, 12:41pm UTC
No he won't, I'm not sure if he should.

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